Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tune was the Depression lament Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, but the lyrics-sung by a character playing Mayor Abraham Beame in this year's Inner Circle satire by political reporters -are all too relevant today. Beame still cannot sell New York City bonds, and the state's Municipal Assistance Corporation securities marketed on the city's behalf recently suffered a ratings drop by Moody's Investors Service. Last week the city's unrelenting financial crisis gave New Yorkers yet another painful jolt. With the entire City University of New York system temporarily closed...
...have to stay out of Asian and African wars when our vital interests are not at stake. We should withdraw all military forces from the mainland of Asia. Long ago I called for an end to bilateral foreign aid programs, which we dish up every year to the tune of $8 billion to $10 billion. I would substitute long-term economic programs in concert with other major countries...
Silly Love Songs is just the sort of tune that comes at the unwary out of car radios and open windows, attaching itself like a particularly stubborn lap cat. It will probably never go away. The brazen breeziness of the music is unshakable...
...sort of refined disco tune, made for dancing and casual listening. At every concert Silly Love Songs gets the same amuck reception as Yesterday or any of the other five Beatles tunes McCartney performs during the course of the evening. Sometimes even bigger. Like much of McCartney's recent work, the song slips neatly, without fuss, into the mainstream...
Listen to What the Man Said is a good tune, all right, with shrewdly alternated rhythms and a lyric that goes down easy...